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Re: Daft question re Marriage Witnesses?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 25 May 16 11:08 BST (UK) »
It is in Section XV of "An Act for the better preventing of clandestine Marriages". (1753) Lord Hardwicke’s Act http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/acts/1753.htm

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Re: Daft question re Marriage Witnesses?
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 25 May 16 14:58 BST (UK) »
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22 Witnesses.
All marriages solemnized according to the rites of the Church of England shall be solemnized in the presence of two or more witnesses in addition to the clergyman by whom the marriage is solemnized. Marriage Act 1949 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/76

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Re: Daft question re Marriage Witnesses?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 25 May 16 15:23 BST (UK) »
Thanks Stan!
Middlesex: KING,  MUMFORD, COOK, ROUSE, GOODALL, BROWN
Oxford: MATTHEWS, MOSS
Kent: SPOONER, THOMAS, KILLICK, COLLINS
Cambs: PRIGG, LEACH
Hants: FOSTER
Montgomery: BREES
Surrey: REEVE
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